Archive for October 22nd, 2007

Issues with Moodle on MS

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

We are trying to get Moodle to perform on a MS environment (W2K3,IIS,SQLServer). Somehow we do not get the performance comparable to a OOTB LAMP setup. FastCGI is not working. Some solution strategies: Install known performing php-apps on MS env like Wordpress, phpBB and compare to LAMP Check info at Zend Try to find ...

Devving Tools

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Online tools for setting up team development: Online team space for agile dev teams: assembla Track hacks: extensions, plugins and macros for Trac

Moodle Moot 2007

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

From 23-25 October, the MoodleMoot will be held in Milton Keynes in England. Interesting sessions: Preconference Hackfest Moodle-Mahara, SSO and ePortfolio Repositories Mark 2 Aligning OpenSource, leveraging Moodle and Sakai Unit Tests in Moodle Development Moodle Network / Google Scalability Mapping with Moodle Moodle "Enterprise" Moodle for internationa Development Short report after the conference, probably next week. I should read these docs: ...

CIDR mask cheatsheet

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

I always get confused when applying or reading ip-range masks. Here is a nice cheatsheet for reference.

Moodle Performance

Monday, October 22nd, 2007

Interesting post of Martin Langhoff: Moodle is usually mainly bottlenecked on the disk IO, specially on the DB side, so we run several pairs of RAID-1 disks, and run them split - the main things to try and have segregated are: OS + Moodle code + eaccelerator files /var/log/ DB storage: /var/lib/mysql  or /var/lib/postgresql DB transaction log ...